Sheppard was unwillingly compelled to listen. "Rather in the way. "What has happened?" asked Sister Prudence. " "And, what good would that do?" replied Ireton, sarcastically. It was your sister who married Sir John Ferringhall the other day, wasn’t it?” Anna nodded. ” “No,” she moaned, “not that. “Do come and cheer me up. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. Flowers, theatre boxes, carriages, the “open sesame” to the whole world of pleasure. They were talking of “Alcide,” as they often did in those days.
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